Thursday, 27 June 2013

Over the last couple of years we have tinkered
around the edges giving it a new url, rebranding and shifting to a new
server environment. We are now however due for an overhaul of the site
from the bottom up.

We have a number of aims with this overhaul:

Presenting our information in a better more user friendly manner.

Making the site more responsive to corrections.

Ensuring the future of the environment so that the underlying core infrastructure is robust and flexible.

Enhancing the usability of the resources.

Engaging with the users through the ability for community annotations and comments.

Ensuring that the site delivers metadata in a way that engages with the semantic web.

Better integration with the library web presence.

So nothing too ambitious there.

What I am looking for with this post is twofold.

Firstly I am looking for comments from users about
what they currently use the NZETC for and also what they dislike about
the NZETC. What would users like to see the NZETC do?

Secondly, as I am researching our options for the
NZETC, I am interested in other sites that are doing similar things. If
you know of any cool sites let me know. Also I would be interested in
hearing about people’s experiences with different
types of infrastructure.

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

He Papakupu Reo Ture: A Dictionary of Māori Legal Terms is now available. He Papakupu Reo Ture was produced by the Legal
Māori Project research team based at Victoria University’s Law Faculty.
The team’s aim was to “provide a resource to
speakers of te reo Māori that will assist such speakers to use Māori
vocabulary to describe Western legal concepts”.

In 2008 we digitised hundreds of historical legal
documents that were written in the Māori language. This data was used to help build a corpus
of Māori legal language which the research
team analysed to write the dictionary. These formed the He Pātaka Kupu
Ture or Legal Māori Archive. Researchers can access the original documents or download the corpus of texts published before 1910 here:
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-legalMaori.html